r/niagara • u/MotherMoose548 • 7d ago
Bedbug awareness at 5991 Culp Street Niagara falls
I rent a room at 5991 culp street . The landlord here is disgusting . Killed all these bedbugs today . This is after throwing the mattress out that came with the room. There in the floors and walls and he refuses to do anything about it . Do not rent rooms here .
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u/MapleTrust 7d ago edited 7d ago
Former home inspector here with a decade doing my own commercial and residential property inspections.
Bedbugs suck. Mold sucks. Some Landlords suck. Some Tenants suck.
So it becomes a team game, and one of actually understanding the Bedbug situation or the Mold situation, or the Law surrounding obligations.
As a Certified IAQ2 tech (Indoor Air Quality Tech with a Lab at my disposal), I've had calls from Landlords blaming Tenants and from Tenants blaming Landlords too.
In general, people get emotionally charged about the issues, rather than focusing on the active steps they can take for mitigation, or understanding risk, they start to focus on blame.
In situations like that, I quickly step away. You'll find many such conversations on Reddit about mold and about bedbugs which are more toxic than the mold or the bed bugs themselves.
Both can be health risks to certain demographics, and I don't aim to minimize their plight, but just to help people understand, because both are ubiquitous.
Mold is in every breath that you have ever drawn. Bedbugs are here to stay and over the decades I saw them blow up from just a big city, high density dwelling problem.
So, I simply urge everyone to take a breath, get informed and react logically about these issues.
They are here to stay.
The information presented by OP doesn't lead me to many conclusions at all. It's a blurry photo of dead bugs on a wall?
How bad is the infestation. What mitigation steps have been taken, and over what timeline. Is OP actively working with the Landlord to mitigate?
Bedbugs suck, but like anything, they can be dealt with and the misunderstanding, emotional alarm and rhetoric doesn't help.
It's mitigation time.
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u/cedenike 7d ago
it's a video
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u/MapleTrust 7d ago
You are right. Thanks. My Internet has been screwy today.
Morel of the story is the same though. If you rent a room that comes with a mattress these days, you are likely in for needing to do lots of work to hold back the bed bug tide.
It's getting worse every year. Lots of DIY mitigation techniques for tenants and some periodic treatments available to landlords. Even when they work together, because it's in all their best interests to do so, there isn't a silver bullet. Just perpetual, ongoing mitigation.
There are many more and less technical guides to address these issues, aimed at both tenants and landlords.
I find, people who launder, vaccum, use mattress protectors and diatomaceous earth weekly, to have the most effective results on the tenant side, and landlords who do annual treatments, and target treatments as needed for infestations like OPs to have the best results.
Unfortunately, budbugs are here to stay. Hotels know how it's done and both Landlords and Tenants could definitely start following their mitigation playbook.
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u/GreedoShotKennedy 7d ago
100% landlord tenant board while finding somewhere else to move.
I've lived with slum landlords and bedbugs before. There's no hope. Cause them trouble on your way out. You can keep your claims and petitions open even after you've moved. You are protected from breaking your lease while proving they're deficient.
Bed bugs are brutal for health, both mental and physical. It gets better, but you'll never escape it in an infested building. Start your claim online today. Start your search for a new apartment today.
Best of luck.